NEW DELHI: 22-year-old ace Indian shooter Manu Bhaker finished fourth in 25m pistol final at the Chatearoux Shooting Centre on Saturday and narrowly missed becoming the first Indian to win three medals in one Olympics.
Manu capped a magnificent campaign in the ongoing Olympic Games with an unprecedented two medals.
Shooting like a world beater, Manu seems to have conquered the inner demons that plotted her downfall in Tokyo to make her rivals feel the heat, but was eliminated after a shootout with Veronika Major of Hungary for the fourth place.
Manu shot 28 in the eight-women final to miss out on completing a hat-trick of medals in a single edition of the Games.
Before Manu, no Indian athlete has claimed more than one medal at the same Olympics.
Korea’s Jiin Yang won the gold medal, while the silver went to Camille Jedrzejewski of France. Former world record holder Veronica Major won the bronze medal.
Manu capped a magnificent campaign in the ongoing Olympic Games with an unprecedented two medals.
Shooting like a world beater, Manu seems to have conquered the inner demons that plotted her downfall in Tokyo to make her rivals feel the heat, but was eliminated after a shootout with Veronika Major of Hungary for the fourth place.
Manu shot 28 in the eight-women final to miss out on completing a hat-trick of medals in a single edition of the Games.
Before Manu, no Indian athlete has claimed more than one medal at the same Olympics.
Korea’s Jiin Yang won the gold medal, while the silver went to Camille Jedrzejewski of France. Former world record holder Veronica Major won the bronze medal.
On Friday, Manu again rewrote Indian shooting’s record books by storming into the final of the women’s 25m pistol event, finishing the qualification round in second place. It was a third straight final berth for Manu, who ended with a total of 590 points. She shot 294 in Precision and 296 in Rapid with a 24x.
On Friday, Hungary’s Veronika Major, had topped the table with a score of 592 points that equalled the Olympic record set by Jingjing Zhang in 2016.
Manu was in third position at the end of the Precision round with a total of 294 (97, 98, 99) and then changed gears to begin a perfect 100 and then added two scores of 98 and 98 to make the medal round on Friday.